We're gonna activate it, and as I mentioned before, you're gonna have to put in some kind of email address to register and hit activate. It's gonna run through the installation wizard like it would with any other Microsoft-based software. And that's pretty much all there is to this process. You can also use a professional version or if you have a professional package as part of your SolidWorks Network license or a Dassault Systemes server license, you can select that as well. You can see here I've got the free version. So if you do have that issue, you gotta run it as administrator. All right, now you can see we're having no issues.
So let me go ahead and navigate to my download. Not really anything in excess of that, but what you can see here is I got an error because I don't have admin rights. Now, to use the free software, all you're gonna have to do is just register an email with them and once a year they ask you to update that email.
I'm gonna go ahead and let this download real quick. I'm gonna go ahead and accept their agreement. And it's a free platform so there's really no reason not to have it. I mean, they're really making this so anybody can use it. I'm gonna download the Windows 64-bit version, but you can see it's supported for Mac, Fedora, Ubuntu. I'm just gonna do a quick Google search for DraftSight and see what comes up. We're just gonna go to my internet browser. So let's just run through that really quick.
DRAFTSIGHT FREE TRIAL INSTALL
And it's a free install so there's no reason not to have it and if you're working with customers that have SolidWorks and for example, auto CAD, 2D DXF, DWG files, you'll want something that you can view them natively in outside of SolidWorks. You can literally drag and drop geometry from the 2D into the 3D and vice versa. And because DraftSight is also designed by Dassault Systemes, they work in cooperation with each other. While this isn't specifically part of your SolidWorks installation, because it's available, I think it's always a good idea for everyone who has SolidWorks available also give them the free installation of DraftSight so they have a 3D and a base 2D tool available.
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